Summary: CSCI 10
Untangling the Web: A Social Analysis of the Internet
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Jeannie Albrecht
TCL 304
597-4251
jeannie@cs.williams.edu
Mon,Wed,Thurs: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Thompson Chemistry Lab (TCL) 206 or 217a
Course Description
Do BitTorrent and YouTube violate copyright laws? Should you be held accountable for incriminating
pictures that your friends post on Facebook or MySpace? The Internet, which began in the late 1960s as
a small government-funded project connecting four computers, now connects billions of computers
world-wide. It has undoubtedly become an integral part of our lives, and has provided new ways for
people to communicate and share information. Certainly any network with billions of computers re-